Corn-husking machine



G. NORGREN. CORN HUSKING MACHINE. APPLICATION men 050121. 1920.

Patented. July 11, 1922.

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Patented July 11, 1922.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 19232;

Application filed December 21, 1920. Serial-No. 432,282;-

To all who-met may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAVUS NonennN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Genterville, in the county of Turner and State of South Dakota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Corn- Husking Machines, of which the following is a specification. v

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient apparatus for uniformly and expeditiously stripping the husks from cars of corn as they are harvested to avoid the loss of time and inconvenience incident to performing the operation manually and at the same time insure 'a com mercial product without requiring special attention in the course of the operation upon the part of the attendant, and to this end, and more particularly to provide means in connection with the device by which the ears are fed to the husking rolls-or equivalent elements, for. positioning said cars so that an effective operation of the husking elements is assured; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein I Figure l is a side view of a husking apparatus embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is azfront view of the same.

Figure 3 is a rear view.

Figure a is a detail plan view to show the means by which motion is communicated to the husking rolls.

The apparatus consists essentially of an elevator 10 which is in communication at its lower or receiving end with a hopper it suitable to facilitate the dumping of the ears of corn as they are brought from the field, a series of pairs of husking rolls 12 disposed at a downward inclination from their receiving toward their delivery ends, their receiving ends being disposed adjacent to the delivery end of the elevator and the pairs of husking rolls being arranged in separate compart ments or chutes between which are arranged division walls 18, between which the ears are adapted to be received in longitudinally progressive positions in substantial parallelism With the husking rolls, to the end that an effective engagement of the rolls with the husks may be assured, and ear positioning means arranged in operative relation with the elevator for disposing the ears as they are carried by the elevator toward the receiving ends of the husking rolls to enter said chutes in the desired relation thereto.

In the construction illustrated the elevator consists. of a chute l l traversed by an apron or belt 15' having suitable flights or spurs 16 for engaging the ears of corn and removing them in a more or less continuous series or layer from the hopper, and located above the elevator apron or belt and in transverse relation thereto preferably; adjacent to the upper end of the elevator is a drum 17 provided with a series of radial fingers 18 whichterminally operate during the rotation of the drum adjacent to the surface of the apron orbelt so as to engage the ears of corn as they are carried upward by the latter, rotary motion being communicated to the drum through a chain 19 extendingfrom a sprocket wheel 20 carried by a transverse countershaft 21 which-in turn receives its motion through a chain 22 from the drive shaft 23. The elevator apron or belt also receives motion from thecountershaft 21 and hence the drum 17 is rotated in reverse direction to the apron so that the fingers 18 move rearwardly or against the direction of movement of the ears and tend to retard.

their movement under the-influence of the apron or belt and prevent them from passing the drum except when longitudinally aligned with the apron or in other words unless arranged in an end-wise relation or in a position to progress longitudinally so that they respectively enter the husking chutes between the partition or division walls 13 in substantial parallelism with the husking rolls and thus are presented in the proper position to have their husks engaged by said rolls and effectively removed in their downward movement toward the delivery ends of said rolls. The husked ears are discharged from the rolls upon a delivery table 24. from which they may be deposited in any suitable receptacle, not shown, while the husks drop into a hopper 25 located beneath the husking rolls, said hopper having an inclined concentrating bottom 26 serving to direct the husks to the lower end of a discharge conveyor 27 driven through a shaft 28 receiving motion from a chain 29 actuated by the drive shaft. The upper ends of the partition walls 13 at the receiving end of the bushing chutes are covered by a transverse inclined fender 30 serving to prevent the cars from being thrown outside of or beyond the husking chutes in the event that for any reason they should become caught or turned over in their passage from the upper end of the feedelevator 10 to the chutes.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is l. A corn husking apparatus having an husking ear feeding mechanism provided: with an endless apron or belt, husking mechanisms having chutes for receiving the ears in endwise progressive position, and ear position ing means located adjacent to the delivery end of the feed mechanism for disposing the ears in parallelism with the direction of progress, said positioning means consisting of a rotary drum disposed axially in transverse relation to the movement of the apron of the feed mechanism and provided with fingers for engaging the ears carried by said apron.-

2. A corn husking apparatus having an of the feed mechanism and provided with fingers'for engaging the ears carried by said apron, said drum being revoluble in a direction reverse to the movement of the apron.

3. A corn husking apparatus having an ear feeding'mechanism provided with an endless apron or belt, husking mechanism having chutes for receiving the ears in endwise progressive position, and ear positioning means located adjacent to the delivery end of the feed mechanism for disposing the ears in parallelism' with the direction of progress, the positioning means having ear engaging fingers for traversing the surface of the, apron of sa d feed mechanism.

4. A corn husking apparatus "having an.

ear feeding mechanism provided with an endless apron or belt, husking mechanism having chutes for receiving the ears in endwise progressive position, and ear positioning means located adjacent to the delivery end of the feed mechanism for disposing the ears in parallelism with the direction of progress, the positioning means having ear engaging fingers for traversing the surface of the apron of saidfeed mechanism and means for moving said fingers in a direction opposite to that of the progress of said apron.

5. A corn husking apparatus having an ear feeding mechanism provided with an endless apron or belt,'husking mechanism having chutes'for receiving the ears in endv wise progressive position, and ear positioning means located adjacent to the delivery end of the feed mechanism for disposing the ears in parallelism with the direction of progress, the feed mechanism and husking mechanism having their apron and chutes respectively inclined upward and downward, toward and from their communicating delivery and receiving ends, and an inclined' fender being disposed transversely adjacent to said communicating ends of the feed and husking mechanisms.

In testimony whereof he afiixes his signature.

GUSTAVUS NORGREN. 

